Bugzilla – Bug 309428
(K)Networkmanager/iwl3945 not able to associate with hidden ssid
Last modified: 2007-09-11 19:13:04 UTC
I found that (k)networkmanager and/or iwlwifi (iwl3945) is not able to connect to wireless networks with hidden ssid's. A workaround for this bug is connecting via knetworkmanager and shortly after that set ssid manually via iwconfig wlan0 essid THEHIDDENSSID or enable broadcasting ssid After that the association works properly. Installing diffrent versions of networkmanager-kde and networkmanager didn't help so i guess that it's a problem of the new iwl3945. In openSuSE 10.2 with the out-of-the-box ipw3945 module, association with hidden ssid worked fine. tried versions: openSuSE 10.3 Beta 3 out-of-the box NetworkManager 0.6.5-28.3 (+glib) NetworkManager 0.6.4-105-3 (=openSuSE 10.2) (+glib) NetworkManager-kde-0.2-4.2 /var/log/NetworkManager after failed association: Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: response was 'OK' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: sending command 'AP_SCAN 1' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: response was 'OK' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: sending command 'ADD_NETWORK' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: response was '0' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 ssid 7368692d6170' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: response was 'OK' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 scan_ssid 1' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: response was 'OK' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 proto WPA' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: response was 'OK' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 key_mgmt WPA-PSK' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: response was 'OK' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: sending command 'SET_NETWORK 0 psk <key>' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: response was 'OK' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: sending command 'ENABLE_NETWORK 0' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> SUP: response was 'OK' Sep 11 10:49:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. Sep 11 10:49:07 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 11 10:49:11 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change. Sep 11 10:49:13 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 11 10:49:18 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change. Sep 11 10:49:19 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 11 10:49:19 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 11 10:49:26 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change. Sep 11 10:49:31 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 11 10:49:34 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change. Sep 11 10:49:37 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 11 10:49:41 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change. Sep 11 10:49:43 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 11 10:49:46 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change. Sep 11 10:49:49 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 11 10:49:49 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 11 10:49:56 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change. Sep 11 10:50:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): association took too long (>60s), failing activation. Sep 11 10:50:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failure scheduled... Sep 11 10:50:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (shi-ap) Sep 11 10:50:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failed. Sep 11 10:50:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Deactivating device wlan0. Sep 11 10:50:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 11 10:50:01 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 11 10:50:13 shi-mobile NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported
Known problem in the upstream code :-( *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 297754 ***